Boulder County voters showed the strongest support, with 58.7 percent of 56,009 voters approving Ballot Issue 3A. In Weld County, 51.7 percent of 22,565 voters approved it. The measure failed in Larimer County, where 49.4 percent of 433 voters said yes, and in Broomfield County, where one of seven voters gave the OK. (A tiny part of the school district extends in to Broomfield County.)

"I appreciate the community's investment in the schools and the students," School board President John Creighton said late Tuesday night. The district has a responsibility to be a good steward of that investment, he added.

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SVVSD budget discussion

The St. Vrain Valley School District Board of Education and administration will discuss the budget implications of the mill levy election results, whether it passes or fails.

He also said he appreciated the hard work that Grassroots St. Vrain and Yes on 3A put in to campaign for the measure.

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The school district asked voters for a $14.8 million mill levy override, a tax increase that would cost owners of a $100,000 home $48.41 in 2013. Business owners would pay an additional $176.38 per $100,000 of property value next year.

The district designated the new revenue, which becomes part of the general fund for operating expenses:

· $4.2 million to maintain teacher positions and class sizes;

· $4.35 million to attract and retain high quality teachers;

· $3.65 million to upgrade technology to enhance learning, including adding three instructional technologists and five computer technicians;

$1 million to expand and enhance early childhood education;

$1.6 million to charter schools, based on their percentage of district enrollment on Oct. 1, 2011.

District officials decided to put the tax increase on the ballot because state funding of education has fallen from $6,945 per pupil in fiscal year 2010 to $6,332 in 2012 and this year.

Because of the funding reductions, the district increased class sizes by an average of one student in the middle and high schools in 2011-12. For 2012-13, all the schools had to increase class sizes by an average of one student.

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